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In Reply to: RE: First Man posted by Steve O on October 12, 2018 at 20:53:16
It is fine as entertainment, but seriously, anyone really interested in how space flights developed, should read the memoirs of people who were actually involved in it.I have read quite a few written by the Russians, and they are incredibly revealing, forcing you to see it all in totally different light. The level of detail there is incredible. At this moment I am still reading the books by general Kamanin. If you don't know what that is, that means you really need to catch up on your space history.
If you were to limit yourself to just two authors, then books by Chertok and Kamanin would be it.
I am wondering if anyone could recommend similar reading on US space program.
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That said the US and Russia split up Germany's rocket scientists and that Von Braun's crew played to their new home crowd as evidenced by booster rocket flare. Von Braun's boosters burned in a brilliant yellowish glare almost like it was a firework while the Russian boosters burned a smaller, less colorful flame and they lifted heavier payloads. Von Braun was giving the US a "show" while Russian scientists were less interested in show and more interested in go.
It also stated that the acquirred German scientists worked with their Russian counterparts and when they had fed them all they knew they were banished to a miserable post-war lifestyle while the new Americans were enjoying civil service pay and our post war boom.
YMMV.
...I'm reading a book called "The Future of Humanity" by astrophysicist Michio Kaku.
"Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth"
Fascinating - what the future holds for our space program and the technology that will get us there.
...read the day by day account of someone on the inside.With the space program there is always a facade there, much less with the US one, but still. The real heroism and real struggle are always invisible to the public, but that is where the Right Stuff is, not on your TV screen.
Anyway, I checked, and Chertok's memoirs are available in English translation, so I highly recommend them. Tons of technical details for the tech junkies like myself.
Staying with the movies, the soviets had their own version of The Right Stuff - it was called Taming of the Fire. Kinda as superficial and silly as TRS, much along the same lines.
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...while history is interesting and I've read plenty of it, I prefer to look forward rather than look back.
The people planning for the future based on all of the changing things going on today are really fascinating.
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